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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 624 | Ryan Burge On The Rise of the Nones, Christianity as a Luxury Good, The Threat To Democracy With the Decline in Religion, And Why The Nones Are Very Reachable

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In Part 3 of the Church Trends Series, Political Scientist and Author Ryan Burge talks about the rise of the nones—people professing no religion.

Ryan discusses the threat to democracy that the decline of religion is causing in America and why the Nones are very reachable for most churches.

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0:00.0

The Art of Leadership Network.

0:03.2

So my understanding of what non-religion is

0:06.8

is changing pretty significantly in the last couple of years.

0:11.2

And really what I'm zeroing in on especially in the last year or two I wrote a

0:15.0

post for my subset called religion as a luxury good which which went viral

0:21.3

quote-unquote whatever that means like not like millions of

0:24.2

clicks but you know a lot of clicks for me and so I make this argument that religion

0:29.3

has become part and parcel of people who have done everything right quote unquote and what I mean by that is

0:35.9

college education middle-class income married with children if you check those four

0:42.3

boxes also called the Golden Path that's what a lot of

0:44.5

conservative economists call that the Golden Path. If you meet those criteria, your

0:48.8

chance of having good income, good outcomes is much higher. You're much more likely to go to church. This is what people don't

0:55.1

understand is like the more education you have the more likely you are to go to

0:59.6

church the more the the ideal combination of income and education are a college degree, four-year college degree,

1:07.0

making between $60,000 and $100,000 a year.

1:09.8

So for me, what we're seeing to me is theves and the have-nots are growing larger and larger every year.

1:16.0

I think this is a serious problem both pastorally, but also from a social science perspective.

1:23.0

Welcome to the Carrie New Hoff Leadership Podcast.

1:30.0

Carrie here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.

1:34.6

We are on episode three of our 2024 Church Trend series.

1:39.3

You can download the free team guide at the link in the description and we got a couple more coming up on

1:44.4

that one as well today's episode is brought to you by Westball gold and by AI

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